Tuesday, May 24, 2011

An unexpected blog entry here, having just heard the first release, the teaser if you will, from the upcoming March Violets EP.

I must confess to much trepidation where reunions of bands I love are concerned – so often it seems that something vital has been lost and somehow things are never the same.

In the case of Road of Bones though, nothing could be further from the truth and what’s more, it just gets better with each listen. The vocals are a bit of a shock initially, but that’s just because the production is so much slicker than it used to be back in the 80s. Such is the wonder of digital technology.

If this is in any way indicative of how the new (and their first) full-length LP will sound then I have absolutely no qualms about having pledged a wee bit of my money towards the project.

Want to hear it?

Of course you do – so like the good little boys and girls you are, why not go here (it may only be available for a VERY short time) and donate a bit of your dosh to help them complete the project:

It’s been a busy, busy month for The March Violets, first with the Road of Bones preview of the “Love Will Kill You” EP, due out in June this year, but now with Dandelion King - the first video, and one presumes single (?) from the reformed band’s upcoming full length album reportedly entitled “Made Glorious” and set for release sometime later this year.

A Welcome and Introduction

Plunder the Tombs was started back in 2010 by way of looking back on a musical past that I felt in sore need of curation.

It was a strange and sad time when what passed for “Goth” in clubs seemed a pale imitator of what once was, following first a decade of cookie-cutter Sisters of the Nephilim clone bands and then another decade of industrial dance being palmed off to younger audiences as a type of faux goth. When on rare occasion DJs in “Goth” clubs did finally become brave enough to play something like Bauhaus it was not untypical to have the dance floor clear, and it became obvious that the memory, meaning and legacy of much that had gone before had been lost.

It’s probably safe to say that the boundaries of what was “Goth” were never clearly defined. An absolute blessing for those bands on the original scene before it had a name pinned to the donkey, but an outright curse for those who came later and found rules had been imposed to dictate that which was and that which was not acceptable. Worse still was to come in the 90s from a lazy and unquestioning media who simply assumed that anything that wore black and make up was by definition “Goth”, thus allowing all manner of pretenders licence, and maximising confusion as to what the term actually referred to.

This has gone on for way too long and its time is at an end. Neo Post-Punk bands now proliferate across Europe, old long dead Goth bands rise from their crypts in the UK, and new deathrock bands are breeding like rabbits up the west coast of America. It is time to reclaim our scene back from metal bands and ravers in disguise.

While the Plunder the Tombs of old focused on what had gone before, there are now far too many exciting new things to ignore. We roar back to life in a reboot, covering past , present and things yet to come.

Let us plunder the tombs….

About Me

A DJ throughout the 90s at numerous Goth night clubs in Perth including The Cell, Dominion and others he was probably far too drunk to remember, largely as a result of his preference to work for bar tabs over cash. Also helped found 6RTR fm's Goth & Industrial showcase Darkwings.
More recent projects include the currently dormant Descent - a small night dedicated to playing genuinely good Goth music both old and new in preference to packing the dance floor with songs everyone had heard 20 million times before. He currently runs a monthly show on Behind the Mirror on 6RTR fm which can be heard on Wednesdays at 11pm WST.
Rumour has it he once masterminded an ill-advised Goth fanzine "Small Pleasures" that in retrospect, he remains profoundly grateful never made it off his desk.